Oliver Cooper (politician)

[9] He increased his party's share of the vote and came first among the Conservative candidates, but lost to the Lib Dems, ending his career in local government.

[19] He has appeared in the national news for campaigning to hire more police,[20] highlighting some Labour members disrupting a minute's silence for Tessa Jowell,[21] securing an official rebuke of Sadiq Khan for allegedly misusing crime statistics in 2018,[22] attacking the Revolutionary Communist Group speaking in Camden Council,[23] intervening and stopping Islamophobic violence on the London Underground in September 2019[24] and helping get rid of anti-Semitic graffiti in his area in December 2019.

[25][26][27][28][29] In 2022, The Times and The Daily Telegraph reported his criticism of censoring or removing statues in Camden of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and other figures.

[30][31] He wrote in The Telegraph in 2015, unsuccessfully asking Conservatives not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader,[32] which left-wing commentator Owen Jones later called a 'prophetic warning'.

"[40] Data from Camden Council showed that amidst the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, spending in Belsize Village rose 111.6%[44] year-on-year to August-Oct 2020 against an overall difficult economic backdrop.

A 14-day consultation held by Camden Council in the summer of 2021 found that 91.5% of residents and businesses supported extending the Belsize Village Streatery.